>if dudes like chief keef and meek millz can get major budgets
>behind them doing rap the way they want to do it ...which is
>"real rap/hip hop" whether yall agree or not then that kind of
>disproves this thread

if that happens i'm not too pigheaded to concede.
but i don't know...
how many times did we see this same scenario in the 00's?
all the got-signed-but-never-came-out mixtape/dvd rappers with small hood buzz that we were promised they would "take things back" or "change the game" in some way for the "better".

the reason they never came out is because the white people in charge of the labels they were signed to didn't see any returns worth gambling on.
which begs the question - why did they even get signed in the first place? which i weighed here last week:

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2723050&mesg_id=2723050&page=